From a hotel lobby in the sunny city of Durban, South-Africa, waiting for my plane transfer after a great TechEd Africa event. Why not write a blog post on one of my talks: the Managed Extensibility Framework, or MEF. As we steam ahead to release .NET 4.0, it’s great to see the amount of new APIs th...

This new version of this popular SSMS add-in brings Window Connection Coloring feature and a few improved old features.

This is the list of the Visual Studio Add-ins, most of which are open source or free. I hope this list will help you to code more faster and effective. If there is not your favorite add-in in the below list, do not hesitate to add it as a comment.

Generally, I don't like to install any Visual Studio extensions at all, but I thought I should give this one a chance. I installed PowerCommands 1.1 for Visual Studio 2008, and went to play with the new functionality. Here is what I found as the most useful...

OK so I finally found some time to start playing around with SL2 B1 in earnest this last weekend. The results? A Silverlight Calculator. I don’t know why but a calculator has always been my HelloWorld, every new programming language or UI stack I learn always starts with a calculator. This thing h...

The title says it all. Article contains a link for VS2005 -version, too.

After some extensive researching (Googling), I’ve compiled this list of 15+ FREE Add-ins for Visual Studio 2005. Some of these add-ins will help improve the quality of your code, while others will help you code faster, however, none are guaranteed to help you get with the ladies.

The people from SlickEdit have created a great add-in to let you integrate the very very large collection of projects directly from Code Project just inside your VS IDE.

I have collected list of the Visual Studio Add-ins, most of which are open source or free. I hope this list will help you to code more faster and effective. If there is not your favorite add-in in the below list, do not hesitate to add it as a comment.

Another version of GhostDoc, a VS-Plugin making the sourcecode documentation as easy as ctrl+shift+D, has been released on Jun 24 2007 by Roland Weigelt. He added VB.Net support and better handling of event documentation.

From the console compiler to the powerful Visual Studio IDE, .NET is just about coding as much as the tools. For that matter, here’s a list of 15 indispensable VS.NET add-ins.

From the page: "JetBrains, the guys who make ReSharper, have a lot of info on their Web site that shows off some of the ReSharper features. But I think it's a lot to absorb in one sitting. And besides, it could use the point-of-view of an actual, happy customer, saying "These are my abso...

I've been using IE7Pro for a few weeks and I really really like it. Some would say it brings some of the Firefox goodness to IE7. IE7Pro's Features Enhance Internet Explorer's Tabbed Browsing Capabilities 1. Double click to close tab. 2. Open new tab from address bar. 3. Enable/disable...

Reflector Addin to generate sequence diagram